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"We habitually stand in our now and look back by faith to see the past filled with God. We look forward and see Him inhabiting the future; but our now is uninhabited except for ourselves. Thus we are guilty of a kind of temporary atheism, which leaves us alone in the universe while, for the time, God is not. We talk of Him much and loudly, yet we secretly think of Him as being absent, and we think of ourselves as inhabiting a parenthetic interval between the God who was and the God who will be. And we are lonely with ancient and cosmic loneliness. We are each like a little child lost in a crowded market, who has strayed but a few feet from its mother, yet because she cannot be seen the child is inconsolable. So we try by every method devised by religion to relieve our fears and heal our hidden sadness; but with all our efforts we remain unhappy still, with the settled despair of men alone in a vast and deserted universe."
A.W. Tozer "The Pursuit of Man"